Happy Mother's Day

We love our mom's and everything they do for us!  Happy Mother's Day!!!

Tech Time

We have not been posting on our blog recently because we discovered a new site, kidblog.org.  As much as I love Blogger our kiddos cannot use Google+ so they cannot post on the blog without logging in as me.  The neat thing we discovered on Kidblog is that we can each have our own login and post to the same site.  The kids have been writing their own posts during computer lab, writing centers, and during Tech Time.  While we have been gone from blogging we started Tech Time each Wednesday!  During this time each one of us has our own iPad and we are learning many different things.  We learned how to get onto our e-mail using the iPad, how to e-mail each other, how to get to our Google drive, and started blogging.

Discovery Center Field Trip

We spent the day at the Discover Center in Rockford, Illinois.  Discovery Center Field Trip

President's Day

On Monday, February 17th we celebrated President's Day.  We learned that Barrack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America.  We also learned that our school, Lincoln Elementary, is named after a President!  That President was the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.  On Monday afternoon we got together with our other kindergarten friends and made Abraham Lincoln masks.

Valentine's Day 2014

On Friday we celebrated Valentine's Day in our classroom.  We made a Valentine's Day candy graph, made a Love Bug using Valentine's Day words, and made a Love Bug crown!  In the afternoon we passed out our Valentine's and enjoyed a Valentine's day snack of read juice and cupcakes.  Valentine's Day 2014

100th Day of School!

We are 100 days smarter today as we celebrated the 100th Day of school!!!  On Monday, during Friendship Club, we practiced counting to 100 by doing 10 sets of 10 separate exercises.  We started today off by making crowns and counting to 100.  From there the day was full of activities involving 100.  We found out that some friends would love 100 pizzas while other friends are really glad they do not have 100 brothers :)

Check out our video of the days activities:  100th Day of school

The Olympics

We are very excited about the start of the Winter Olympics!  This week we joined Mr. Marc in Adventure to Fitness on an original Greek Olympic adventure.  We learned that the Olympics are held every 4 years.  We also learned the importance of being honest and always being a good sport.







In our new Olympic Center we can follow the Sochi Winter Games.  We learned how to scan QR codes with our iPads so we can follow our favorite countries.  Each morning we are using tallies to count the number of medals for 5 countries.  We chose to follow, the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, China, and Korea.  We add the tallies to our bulletin board and at the end of the games we will see who had the most!  In the Olympic Center we can also read books, color pictures, and make our own Olympic stories.

One of our questions when talking about the Olympians was how do they get to the Olympics?  Mrs.  Wenzel helped us answer that question by teaching us about training.  We found out that practicing for the Olympics is called training.  We began our training in 4 events so far; speed skating, cross-country skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton, and the luge!

Today during choice time these friends found the word U.S.A. in an old big book in the room!